Why did he call Connie his "sweet little blue-eyed girl" when it states earlier in the story that she had brown eyes? What did he mean by it?
sharei've just read it in class, and i thought he was referencing a song because of the way music kept factoring in. i'll have to look it up
shareIf Arnold Friend really is Death personified, and we think of the old motif of Death as a skeleton, then his "chips of broken glass" eyes could be an illusion and he really doesn't have eyes at all -- so he can't really see her. Not to mention the story is dedicated to Bob Dylan who sang "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue".
shareLaura Dern talked about that scene in a 1990 interview with Interview magazine
"The line I find fascinating in Smooth Talk - when I come out through the screen door and Treat says, "Come on, you gonna come out of your daddy's house, my sweet little blue-eyed girl?" - is when I reply, "What if my eyes were brown?" It's sort of "*beep* you," in a way. It's like Connie's saying, "I'm in control of this, I'm in the driver's seat." Maybe she says it out of fear, to protect herself, but on some level she is controlling it."